Pipeline transport - Definition and Overview

Pipelines transport gases and liquids in common practice, and have been used to transport solid capsules through pneumatic tubes. Gas and liquid commodities transported through pipelines include:

• Natural gas
• Oil
• Sewage
• Slurry
• Water

In some special cases also drinks like beer are transported through pipelines (see below).

Accidents

Pipelines conveying flammable or explosive material such as natural gas or oil pose special safety concerns.

• June 4, 1989 - sparks from two passing trains detonated gas leaking from an LPG pipeline near Ufa, Russia. Up to 645 people were reported killed.
• October 17, 1998 - at Jesse in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline exploded killing about 1200 villagers, some of whom were scavenging gasoline - the worst of several similar incidents in this country.
• June 10, 1999 - a pipeline in a Bellingham, Washington park leaked gasoline, vapor from leak exploded and killed 2 children
• July 30, 2004 - a major natural gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, Belgium near Ath (thirty kilometres southwest of Brussels), killing at least 23 people and leaving 122 wounded, some critically. (Reuters) (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HXJX3BKM0LDU0CRBAE0CFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=5832363) (CNN) (http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/07/30/belgium.gas.blast/index.html)

List of Pipelines

• Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline (BTC)
• Operation Pluto - World's first undersea oil pipeline (1942)
• Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAP)
• Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS)
• Trans-Israel pipeline

Pipelines for the fuel supplement of NATO-Airfields

Its own pipeline net exists to pipelines for the fuel supply of NATO airfields for the supply of the NATO airfields in Central Europe.

Pipelines for other liquids and gases

each liquid and each gas, which are chemically stable, can be sent to pipelines for other liquids and gases in principle by pipelines. Thus also beverage pipelines were already realized. 

beverage pipelines

beer pipelines

in the Schalke arena are connected to 2 ] (http://www.sueddeutsche-tv.de/index.php?idart=47) the different points of bar by a 5 kilometers long beer pipeline [. With the well-known Alpirsbacher brewery in Alpirsbach the racking plant and the Brauererei are connected [ to 3 ] by a beer pipeline (http://www.bierforum.de/bierundreise.htm). Also the Tucherbrauerei in Nuernberg established a beer pipeline between its work and to a camp.

See also

• Hydrostatic test